Wade High School
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Griffith, New South Wales
Griffith is a city in south-western New South Wales, Australia. It is also the seat of the City of Griffith local government area. Like the Australian capital, Canberra and the nearby town of Leeton, Griffith was designed by Walter Burley Griffin. Griffith was named after Sir Arthur Griffith the...
, Australia. Wade High School was established in 1971 as Griffith’s second high school. It is a co-educational state public school and has an enrolment of approximately 720 students and 63 staff. Half of its students come from the East Griffith / Driver / Collina
Collina, New South Wales
Collina is the newest suburb of Griffith, New South Wales, Australia in the City of Griffith. Collina is located to the northwest of the city and reflects Griffith's rapid growth. Collina means hill in Italian....
area, with the main feeder school being Griffith East Public School. The remainder of the students come from farming areas and smaller places including Yenda
Yenda, New South Wales
Yenda is a town in the Riverina district of New South Wales, Australia. The town is located about 16km east of Griffith, 45 kilometres north of Narrandera, and 450km west of Sydney in the Murrumbidgee Irrigation Area of Southern NSW...
, Yoogali
Yoogali, New South Wales
Yoogali is a small town located in the Local Government Area of the City of Griffith in the Australian state of New South Wales. It is situated between Griffith and Yenda, just outside of the Moorevile industrial estate. At the 2006 census, Yoogali had a population of 1,482.-Today:It currently...
, Rankins Springs
Rankins Springs, New South Wales
Rankins Springs is a small town in the Riverina region of New South Wales, Australia. It is in Carrathool Shire Council and on the Mid-Western Highway...
, Beelbangera
Beelbangera, New South Wales
Beelbangera is a town in the north west of the Riverina and situated about 2 kilometres north-east from Griffith and about 7 kilometres south-west of Yenda...
, Bilbul
Bilbul, New South Wales
Bilbul is a village in the central part of the Riverina and situated about 6 kilometres north-east from Griffith and 6 kilometres south-west from Yenda. Bilbul was named in honor of William T Bull , an early landowner from the 1880s. The William Bull Brewery is located at Bilbul and named after...
and Binya
Binya, New South Wales
Binya is a farming community in the centre of the Riverina area and situated about east of Griffith along Burley Griffin Way, heading in the direction of Ardlethan. In 2006, Binya had a population of 238 people. The railway line opened in 1916. Passenger services ceased in 1983 and the station...
. Many of the students spend a great deal of time travelling to and from school each day, especially those in the Rankins Springs area.
Years Seven and Eight are part of the Middle School years, Years Nine and Ten the School Certificate years and Years Eleven and Twelve the Senior School when Preliminary and Higher School Certificate Courses are completed. Students with satisfactory attendance and progress receive their School Certificate
School Certificate
The School Certificate was a qualification issued by the Board of Studies, New South Wales, typically at the end of Year 10. The successful completion of the School Certificate is a requirement for completion of the Higher School Certificate...
at the end of Year Ten and their HSC at the end of Year Twelve.
Facilities
The school features two fully renovated kitchens for food technology and hospitality, a large enclosed hall used for indoor sports and gatherings and two computer rooms, each with approximately 30 IBM computers, with 1GB of RAM and Pentium 4 3.2 GHz Processors and a further small computer room for multimedia fitted with eMacsEMac
The eMac, short for education Mac, was a Macintosh desktop computer made by Apple Inc. It was originally aimed at the education market, but was later made available as a cheaper mass market alternative to Apple's second-generation LCD display iMac....
(original version). The school library, which is to be used for school related work only, also contains IBM computers with each named after an author. Recently, after a fire, the school's B Block was renovated. 15 new class rooms were built - each with new equipment and refrigerated air conditioning. The F Block containing seven class rooms was also fitted with refrigerated air conditioning. The school's outdoor sporting facilities include a soccer pitch, two netball courts, two basketball courts (within the same enclosure), two cricket nets and a cricket pitch.
Sporting
Wade High School hosts annual swimming and athletics carnivals. The swimming carnival is held early in term one at the Griffith Aquatic Centre and the athletics carnival is held in term three at the West End Oval. The school's students are divided into four houses for these carnivals and points are given to each house based on student participation and placement in each event. The four sporting houses of Bradman, Fraser, Laver and Mackay are named after Australian sportsmen. High performing students can progress to regional, zone and state carnivals after the school carnivals.Wade High and Griffith High School host the Nugan Shield every year, which consists of a series of sporting events.
Wade High has been very successful in the sporting area, including:
- The Bill Turner Soccer Cup - Won the event in 2007 by defeating Illawarra Grammar in the final
Notable alumni
- Alex BlackwellAlex Blackwell (cricketer)Alexandra Joy Blackwell is a female cricketer who plays for New South Wales and Australia as a specialist batsman. Her identical twin sister Kate has also played for Australia....
- Australian Women's Cricket Team - Kate BlackwellKate BlackwellKathryn Anne Blackwell in Wagga Wagga, but raised in Yenda, a small rural town outside of Griffith, NSW. She and her identical twin sister Alex Blackwell were part of the Australian national team that won the 2005 Women's Cricket World Cup in South Africa...
- Australian Women's Cricket Team
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